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Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th…
Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th of Luke the lamentable state of the damned : and may fitly serve as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment : with a discovery of the usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of hell / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for F. Smith, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8. Remember how thou didst dissemble at such • time ••e at such a time, cheat thy neighbour at such a time, mock, flout, scoff, taunt, hate, persecute the people of God at such a time, in such a place, among such company.
8. Remember how thou didst dissemble at such • time ••e at such a time, cheat thy neighbour at such a time, mock, slout, scoff, taunt, hate, persecute the people of God at such a time, in such a place, among such company.
9. Remember that while others were met together in the fear of the Lord to seek him, thou wast met with a company of vain companions to sin against him; while the Saints were a praying, thou were a cursing; while they were speaking good of the name of God, thou wert speaking evil of the Saints of God. O then thou shalt have a scalding hot remembrance of all thy sinful thoughts words and actions, from the very first to the last of them that ever thou didst commit in all thy life time: Then thou wilt find that Scripture to be a truth, (Deut. 28. 65, 66, 67.) The Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. And thy life shall hang in doubt ⟨p. 65⟩before thee, and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning, thou shalt say, would God it were even: and at even thou shalt say, would God it were morning; for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. Nay, thou wilt find worse things to thy woe then this Scripture doth manifest. For indeed there is no tongue able to express the horror, terror, torment, and eternal misery, that those poor souls shall undergo, without the least mitigation or ease and a very great part of it shall come from that quick, full, and continual remembrance of their sins that they shall have. And therefore there is much weight in these words, Son, remember that thou in thy life time hadst thy good things.